Malevolent countries soon will be able to saturate ­social media with machine-written false stories.

Nostalgia for old-school products, from arcade games to turntables, is fuelling a retro revival.

Incredible advances in visual and audio broadcast technology are on our doorstep.

A war time 1916 men’s Aussie rules match and 1947 women’s game have been “colourised” using machine learning.

Once a mainstay of mainframe and early home computers, magnetic tape is making a comeback for safe data storage.

A big weekend of celebrations are planned for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonwalk.

Researchers are using artificial intelligence to predict and alleviate natural disasters such as earthquakes, bushfires and floods.

Federal parliament passed amendments last month to give Australian agencies more tools to access encrypted conversations.

Google may go past seeing what we buy to swaying our choices.

Gaming enthusiasts are taking their virtual reality skills to a new level.

Motor neurone disease sufferers may soon get the chance to use a device that turns text into authentic sounding speech.

Artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality will play a huge role as humankind heads to Mars and beyond.